Letter Bomb: Nuclear Holocaust and the Exploding Word

by Peter Schwenger and Professor Peter Schwenger

A significant and lively contribution to the growing field of nuclear criticism, Letter Bomb explores the tensions that exist among such writers as Derrida, Lacan, Girard, Blanchot, and Bloch. He plays these writers against one another and against works of literature--as well as, occasionally, film or music--that deal explicitly with the nuclear theme. "I read Letter Bomb with pleasure. It is a highly personal study, written more like an essay or...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801844886
• ISBN13: 9780801844881
• Release Date: December 1992
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.0"